It’s taken 15 years of cinematic attempts, but “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is finally the film that this character and his audience deserve.

Now playing in theaters everywhere, this Marvel/Sony collaboration is an indisputable success, a joyful summer adventure with tons of heart and an energy to match Tom Holland’s winning performance as the titular web-head.

Unlike the previously depicted big screen sad sack versions of the character, this Peter Parker really is, as the song goes, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. He’s a bright kid, specifically a sophomore from Queens. And, despite his action-packed debut last year in “Captain America: Civil War,” he’s still clearly adjusting to his great power and the great responsibility that comes with it.

A key element of “Homecoming” director Jon Watts’ success is the way he trusts his audience, showing Peter learning through actions as well as from lectures from a father figure (here delivered by Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark).

Tom Holland in a scene from "Spider-Man: Homecoming."(Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures-Sony)

Watts, also one of the film’s six credited screenwriters, seems to know that by now, on our third cinematic iteration of the character in less than two decades, audiences don’t want or need to have his origin story explained to us yet again. There isn’t a radioactive spider or a murdered Uncle Ben anywhere in sight.

This is a film that hits the ground running (and jumping and flipping and gliding) and is so much the better for it.

That's not to say this film doesn't have stakes of its own. There's plenty of gravity here, thanks to both Holland's effective performance and Michael Keaton, doing terrific work as the antagonistic Vulture.

Maybe the best villain ever to hit the screen in a Marvel movie, Keaton brings grit and intelligence to his role, elevating it far above most comic book movie baddies' disposable, one-shot nature.

Michael Keaton in a scene from "Spider-Man: Homecoming."(Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures-Sony)

Keaton's character is an industrious guy, turning high-powered detritus left over from superhero battles into weapons. That method, combined with Holland's attempts to find his place in the superhero landscape, fleshes out a fascinating theme of earned ownership.

Watts has given us remarkably similar characters in Spider-Man and the Vulture; they're both working-class New Yorkers, fashioning the cast-offs of society into something they can call their own.

“Homecoming” joins this year’s earlier triumphs of “Logan” and “Wonder Woman” in following the hit-making lead of last year’s “Deadpool,” bucking established comic book movie conventions to tell a story appropriately suited for the character at its center.

With this film, that means delivering an authentic high school comedy, albeit one with a higher than average number of explosions.